Iraq to Start Water Injection Project in a Month

Iraq is expected to start the first phase of a multibillion-dollar water injection project to help boost crude production rates from its southern oilfields in a month, an Iraqi oil official said.

"Talks with oil companies are focused now at the total cost of the first phase of the project, and we expect to reach a deal and start first steps of building after a month," Abdul-Mahdy al-Ameedi, head of the Oil Ministry's licensing and contracting office, told Reuters.